Question

Either in flash pro or flash builder is there a way to get a full list of instance variables? I have an existing FLA with several hundred objects on the stage with instance names. It would be useful if I could get a list of the existing instance names to which I’m going to be adding more interactivity.

EDIT: I’m going to be using this for further development in Flash Builder on the existing FLA that was created in Flash Pro.

Answer 1

you can trace out stuff using describeType. add this on your maintimeline to test.

import flash.utils.describeType;
var a1:String = 'oi';
var b1:Array = [1,2,3];
var c1:int = 123;
trace(describeType(this));

loop thru the xml to find variables (there’s loads more things there)
[…]

<extendsClass type="Object"/>
<implementsInterface type="flash.events::IEventDispatcher"/>
<implementsInterface type="flash.display::IBitmapDrawable"/>
<variable name="a1" type="String"/>
<variable name="b1" type="Array"/>
<variable name="c1" type="int"/>
<accessor name="enabled" access="readwrite" type="Boolean" declaredBy="flash.display::MovieClip"/>